I have the impression you’re confounding the terms “freedom” and “democracy”, themselves quite broad. The contents of your post suggest what you’re seeking is to live in a country that are representative liberal democracies, and whose electoral process results in specific representativeness quotients, as well as in other specific features. But that doesn’t exactly overlap with any specific notion of “freedom”, such as that of “true freedom”, unless you also were to provide a specific definition of both.
I imagine you’re going to find a better response if you were to taboo the words “democracy”, “freedom”, and “true freedom”, so as to restate what you’re seeking in more objective, concrete terms.
Not so much confounding, as conflating. But I agree conflating them without explicating why I believe they are correlated makes this post weaker, and it could be beneficial in the future to more explicitly make the case for my implicit position that more democratic and closely representative countries are also more free.
I agree that value can be had in playing Taboo with the words you list, though I do also feel that taking advantage of the existing connotations these words have is beneficial in using people’s existing intuition about freedom and democracy to pump intuitions for why the systems I value are important and better than the system that currently exists in the US.
I have the impression you’re confounding the terms “freedom” and “democracy”, themselves quite broad. The contents of your post suggest what you’re seeking is to live in a country that are representative liberal democracies, and whose electoral process results in specific representativeness quotients, as well as in other specific features. But that doesn’t exactly overlap with any specific notion of “freedom”, such as that of “true freedom”, unless you also were to provide a specific definition of both.
I imagine you’re going to find a better response if you were to taboo the words “democracy”, “freedom”, and “true freedom”, so as to restate what you’re seeking in more objective, concrete terms.
Not so much confounding, as conflating. But I agree conflating them without explicating why I believe they are correlated makes this post weaker, and it could be beneficial in the future to more explicitly make the case for my implicit position that more democratic and closely representative countries are also more free.
I agree that value can be had in playing Taboo with the words you list, though I do also feel that taking advantage of the existing connotations these words have is beneficial in using people’s existing intuition about freedom and democracy to pump intuitions for why the systems I value are important and better than the system that currently exists in the US.
Thanks for the feedback!